Peter Zakin (pzakin)

Wrote a small post this week that makes an oversimplified/slightly obvious point, but which nevertheless i think is important and underappreciated: war for user attention is zero sum. https://pzakin.substack.com/p/attentionomics

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I think one of my more radical takes is that the thiel fellowship didn’t go far enough and someone (thiel, andreesen etc) should just build a Silicon Valley enmeshed high prestige credentialing option for college aged kids.

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light prediction: Microsoft-OpenAI launch an AI-centric web browser where search bar is replaced with a search experience combining ChatGPT + Bing.

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Main motivation for writing this is that I've been thinking about limits on our adoption of new AI powered tools. In a nutshell, i'm bullish on: - GPT-powered substitutes of existing functions. - Agents operating in the background. - Desktop and browser extensions. But bearish on: - assistant apps - search engines

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